I've done some really rough screen measurements.

I **think** that a degree of scale on the map is about 17 feet. At 300 degrees of map, that gives us just shy of a square mile.

That seems really small to me, compared to the size of the map.

Does anyone know the actual size?

The world is 3072 tiles north to south and 3072 tiles west to east. I think a door is 4 tiles wide which corresponds roughly to 1 meter. 3072 / 4 would be 768 meters on each side. So quite a bit less than a square mile.

Thanks!

Wow, it's kind of hard to wrap my mind around how small Brittania is. Or, maybe how much you can pack into a little under a half a square mile.

Thanks!

When I tried playing it, it felt like Ultima 7's map is smaller than Ultima 6's, like they shrunk the world, threw out much of the boring wilderness, while keeping all the points of interest.

Brittania feels more vast in Ultima 4 and 5, where the whole map scale is different, making it much easier to see the vastness without the game being bogged down for travel; Ultima 6 used a single-scale map (making travel more of a pain if you don't just teleport), and Ultima 7 made the map more manageable.

Incidentally, Ultima 5 NES also used a single scale map, but it felt that it didn't work out for that game. (Then again, that version of the game has so many other issues that it's in kusoge territory.)